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<h1>Dragora</h1>

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 alt="Dragora logo" class="imgright" height="333px" width="333px"></a></p>

<h2>What is Dragora?</h2>

<p>Dragora is an independent
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.en.html">GNU/Linux</a>
distribution project which was created from scratch with the intention of
providing a reliable operating system with maximum respect for the user
by including entirely
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">free software</a>.
Dragora is based on the concepts of simplicity and elegance, it offers
a user-friendly Unix-like environment with emphasis on stability and security
for long-term durability.</p>

<p>To put it in a nutshell, Dragora is...</p>
<ul>
    <li>Minimalist.</li>
    <li>Free as in freedom.</li>
    <li>Getting better by the day.</li>
    <li>A whole lot of fun (not suitable for old vinegars).</li>
</ul>
<p>Some of the features of Dragora are:</p>
<ul>
    <li>SysV init as the classic, documented initialization program (PID 1).</li>
    <li>Perp to reliably start, monitor, log and control "critical" system daemons.</li>
    <li>Lightweight alternatives to popular free software; i.e, musl libc,
        libressl, mksh, scron, pkgconf.</li>
    <li>The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE).</li>
    <li>Window managers such as TWM, DWM.</li>
    <li>Graft for managing multiple packages under a single directory hierarchy
        using symbolic links mechanisms.</li>
    <li>Qi as a simple local package manager that complements Graft to create,
        install, remove and upgrade software packages.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Latest news</h3>
<ul>
  <li>2024-03-15
    <a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dragora-users/2024-03/msg00002.html">New webmaster</a>
  </li>
  <li>2024-02-29
    <a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dragora-users/2024-02/msg00000.html">Dragora website migration</a>
  </li>
  <li>2023-04-26
    <a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dragora-users/2023-04/msg00011.html">Dragora 3.0-beta2 released</a>
  </li>
</ul>
<p><a href="news.html">See all news</a>.</p>

<h2>Downloading Dragora</h2>

<p>Dragora can be found on the
 <a href="https://www.gnutransfer.com/en">gnutransfer</a> rsync server
(<a href="rsync://rsync.dragora.org/">download via RSYNC</a>), and its
<a href="mirrors.html">mirrors</a>; please use a mirror if possible.</p>

<h2>Documentation</h2>

<p><a href="manual/index.html">Documentation for
Dragora</a> is online.  It can also be accessed by running
<kbd>info&nbsp;dragora-handbook</kbd>or by looking at
<code>/usr/share/doc/dragora-handbook/</code>,
or similar directories on your system.<br>A brief summary
is available by running <kbd>dragora-help</kbd>.</p>

<h2>Development</h2>

<p>The latest changes in the development of Dragora can be viewed and followed
from the links below.  Dragora repositories are hosted on
<a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dragora">Savannah</a> and
<a href="https://notabug.org/dragora/">NotAbug.org</a>.  We also keep a
mirror of the Savannah repository at
<a href="http://repo.or.cz/dragora.git/">http://repo.or.cz/dragora.git/</a>.
If you have <a href="http://git-scm.com">Git</a> installed, you can retrieve
the latest revision with the following command:</p>

<p><kbd>git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/dragora.git</kbd></p>

<h3>Project repositories
<a href="http://repo.or.cz/dragora.git/atom"><img src="../common/Feed-icon.svg"
 alt=" (atom feed subscription from http://repo.or.cz/dragora.git/)"
  height="24px" width="24px"></a>
</h3>
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>mainline:</td>
        <td><strong>3.0</strong></td>
        <td></td>
        <td>[<a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora.git/tree/">browse</a>]</td>
        <td>[<a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora.git/log/">changelog</a>]</td>
        <td>[<a href="https://notabug.org/dragora/dragora/issues">issues</a>]</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>oldstable:</td>
        <td><strong>2.2</strong></td>
        <td>2012-04-21</td>
        <td>[<a href="http://mirror.fsf.org/dragora/v2/">browse</a>]</td>
        <td>[<a href="http://mirror.fsf.org/dragora/v2/ANNOUNCEMENT2.2.TXT">announcement</a>]</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>dragora-website:</td>
        <td><strong>~</strong></td>
        <td></td>
        <td>[<a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora/dragora-website.git/tree/">browse</a>]</td>
        <td>[<a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora/dragora-website.git/log/">changelog</a>]</td>
        <td>[<a href="https://notabug.org/dragora/dragora-website/issues">issues</a>]</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>dragora-handbook:</td>
        <td><strong>~</strong></td>
        <td></td>
        <td>[<a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora/dragora-handbook.git/tree/">browse</a>]</td>
        <td>[<a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora/dragora-handbook.git/log/">changelog</a>]</td>
        <td>[<a href="https://notabug.org/dragora/dragora-handbook/issues">issues</a>]</td>
    </tr>
</table>

<h2>Mailing lists</h2>

<p>Dragora has the following mailing lists:</p>
<ul>
    <li>
        <a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dragora-users">dragora-users</a>
        for general user help and discussion.
    </li>
</ul>

<p>Announcements about Dragora and related subprojects to it are made on the
dragora-users list
(<a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dragora-users">archives</a>).</p>

<p>Security reports that should not be made immediately public can be
sent directly to the maintainer.  If there is no response to an urgent
issue, you can open an issue to the general
<a href="https://notabug.org/dragora/dragora/issues">bug tracker</a>
(hosted on <a href="https://notabug.org">NotABug's</a> community).</p>

<h2>Internet Relay Chat (IRC)</h2>

<p>Join us in #dragora on <a href="https://libera.chat/">Libera.Chat</a>.
If you don't have an IRC client installed yet, you can access the channel via
<a href="https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#dragora">Web Libera.Chat</a>.</p>
<p>Otherwise, simply connect to <code>irc.libera.chat</code> on port 6697,
7000, or 7070 for TLS access, or ports 6665-6667 or 8000-8002 for plain-text
access.</p>

<h2>Getting involved</h2>

<h4>Test releases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Trying the latest test release (when available) is always appreciated.
Test releases of Dragora can be found at <a href="mirrors.html">mirrors</a> page.</li>
</ul>

<h4>Bug reports</h4>
<ul>
<li>For general discussion of bugs in Dragora the
<a href="https://notabug.org/dragora/dragora/issues">bug tracker</a>
at <a href="https://notabug.org">notabug.org</a> is the most appropriate forum.
Please include a descriptive subject line, if all of the subject are
"Bug in Dragora" it is impossible to differentiate them.</li>
</ul>

<h4>Documentation</h4>

<p>We try to improve and enrich the official documentation provided by
the project; be it the official handbook, the FAQ, as well as the tools
created from or for the project.  If you would like to help, we have
separate Git repositories for this, see above.</p>

<h4>Donations</h4>

<p>This is one of the most important aspects to try to guarantee the continuity
of the project.  Please see the <a href="donate.html">donate</a> page.</p>

<h4>Maintainer</h4>

<p>Dragora is currently being maintained by Mat&iacute;as Fonzo.  Please use
the mailing lists for contact.</p>

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